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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

I coloured the "Meermin" image from Rick St Dennis Mfa's Little Loves colouring book and then brought some digital elements and effects in with photoshop. Click this link to see all of Rick St Dennis Mfa's colouring books for sale. Here is where the Little Loves colouring book can be purchased:

"BUY Dia de los muertos 1 and 2 on 1 sale and I will refund 3.00usd to help offset Vat or local taxes-refund will be made directly to your PAYPAL account no refunds on direct pay sorry ask for a coupon code via rickstdennis@yahoo.com including date of your purchase-no refunds on hard copy books sorryIf you use a coupon that qualifies as your discount."

Friday, May 27, 2016

Here is some cute inspiration from me today. For those who know I like dark stuff, yes, I am actually ill and feverish. Apparently I make happy and pretty things when ill and dark, creepy stuff when well. Perhaps I should speak to my shrink about this phenomenon? LOL! Click image to enlarge. You can purchase the image, "Betsy and Bunny" here. Click here to find the Rick St. Dennis Fans and friends group.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Hi! Lady Brayton here! I made some creepy fun inspiration for everyone today using Rick St. Dennis images, but the images are no longer offered as digital singles. Instead, pages upon pages of these awesome images as well as scenes can be found in Rick's "The Dark World of Carnivals" adult colouring book which is listed in the comments below. This is brilliant because you don't have to think about what to create with the images. You can just colour and enjoy! Anyway, if you're looking for digital singles or sets, many other cool images can be found in Rick St Dennis Mfa​'s Etsy and Zibbet shops. Also, both shops have instant downloads so you can have instant gratification. The zibbet shop has the more mainstream images and the Etsy shop has the darker images.

My piece is a mix of copic coloured images as well as digitally coloured images and the scene was created in Photoshop. I added some elements and light effects from Mischief Circus, Gothic Inspirations, and Lotta Designs. Click the image to enlarge. Cheers!

To purchase "The Dark World of Carnivals", check the links below.

the dark world of carnivals

Authored by Rick St. dennisDrawings by Rick St. dennisCover design or artwork by Monique Van DijkGuest editor Bonnie IrvineAssisted by Monique Van DijkEdition: 1a combination colouring book/informational nook about one artists reflections on the American Carnival. Many full page detailed illustrations interspersed with short one page essays, quotes and quips about Carnivals-the publication does not attempt to be definitive it's aimed at a market that would enjoy a scary carnival film or story combined with whimsical drawings teen to adult softcover suitable for colouring with dry media (pencils, Crayons).

Monday, April 11, 2016

For the ones who don't know yet, we have moved our challenges to the Rick St. dennis Fans and Friends facebook group.

We have 2 monthly challenges, one for crafters and one for colorists, The craft challenge this month is themed: you got me in Stiches, so eitere use an image that has stitches, or add stitching or faux stitching to your project.

You can enter your project in this albume on the fb group (you will find the rules and prize info there too)

Friday, April 1, 2016

I used this amazingly cute Jester Bear on my latest card. Coloured with Ranger's Distress Inks in the colours: Tumbled Glass, Candied Apple, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain and Scattered Straw. There is a whole series of bears made by Rick and I adore them all. Just a simple dry embossed background, no more decorations needed.

all info for our February RSD Facebook Challenge!
Theme ~ Hearts and/or Arrows
For this challenge, which must feature a Rick St. Dennis image, we want to see a heart(s) or an arrow(s) or both somewhere on your project, either in the image or in the background...or maybe it's the shape. Have fun with it!

Time Frame ~ February 1 – February 29 at 11:59 pm EST

Facebook Challenge Rules
must use an RSD digi or rubber stamp
full project, not just colouring of image (full project can be anything from a tag, card, atc, to an altered piece, mixed media or art journal page...anything where the project is the showcase for the image which is the focal)
hand coloured and hand crafted (no digital colouring)
no limit to the number of submissions per person
one clear, well-lit photo per entry entered into the February Facebook Challenge album. You can link to blog in album comments under your photo. That way it will pop up on the Timeline so everyone can be inspired.

Monday, February 1, 2016

update February 2 2016, There is a SALE ON RICK'S ZIBBET 40 % DISCOUNT so better hrry for some shopping because not sute when the sale ends.

Hi everyone!Today marks an exciting day for the Rick St. Dennis EDT. We are changing our challenge format from the Progressive Challenge on this blog to a monthly Facebook Challenge on Rick St. Dennis' Fans & Friends Facebook group. We will be following a monthly theme and your entries will be posted to an album on our Facebook group instead of uploading them here.

Our very first theme running from today, February 1 until the end of the month, February 29 will follow the theme Hearts and/or Arrows. For this challenge, which must feature a Rick St. Dennis image, we want to see a heart(s) or an arrow(s) or both somewhere on your project, either in the image or in the background...or maybe it's the shape. Have fun with it! There are many, many images in both Rick's Zibbet and Etsyshops which would fit the theme.

Here are our Facebook Challenge Rules

must use an RSD digi or rubber
stamp

full project, not just colouring
of image (full project can be anything from a tag, card, atc, to an
altered piece, mixed media or art journal page...anything where the
project is the showcase for the image which is the focal)

hand coloured (no
digital colouring)

no limit to the number of
submissions per person

one clear, well-lit photo per
entry entered into the February Facebook Challenge album. You can
link to blog in album comments under your photo. That way it will
pop up on the Timeline so everyone can be inspired.

Winners & Prizes:

We are using a sliding scale for prizes
based upon the number of entries

1 to 3 entries:

Winner chosen by Random.org Prize:
one digi

4 to 10 entries:

One winner chosen by EDT Prize: one
image & badge

One winner chosen by Random.org Prize:
one image

11 to 20 entries:

Two winners chosen by EDT Prize:one
image & badge

One winner chosen by Random.org Prize:
one image

21 + entries:

One winner chosen by EDT : one image &
badge

One winner chosen by Rick: one image &
badge

One winner chosen by Random.org: one
image

Throughout the month, each member of the EDT will post their response to this challenge on the Fans & Friends FB groupto give you some inspiration. In addition, we hope to have some new projects featuring a Rick St. Dennis image on Facebook each day. We will also keep a running gallery on this blog as well as Airless Chambers so if you need to reference a project or an image, you can find it easily.

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Hi everyone! Hope you are all doing fabulous. Today I'm here to share with you a very messy little journaling out of the box using the fabulous Euro Girl Denise The Artiste.

I say journaling out of the box because I have been making little journaling cards to place into an old disquette box. I still have to embellish the box but I think it's very fun to make those little tiny journaling cards. I'm using an old kid's game to journal on! So recycling at it's best! Love when I can transform something.

Anyway I have made a little video of my process including my finger painting :)

And here's the little card for you to see.

The image was colored with my copics and then fussy cut out. I used some die cuts as well as a bunch of different sentiments that I have cut out of magazines.

Saturday, January 23, 2016

It gives us great pleasure to welcome our four new members to the Rick St. Dennis Elite Design Team (EDT). Thank you to all of the wonderful talented people who applied. we wish we could have taken all of you but unfortunately we could only choose four...tough decisions!

We hope you will join us in welcoming:

Nan Bourdeu whose art can be found on her blogs here: http://mysideofoz.blogspot.ca/

Henriette Geurkink whose art can be found on her blog here: http://design-54.blogspot.ca/

Leigh Snaith-Brunton whose art can be found on her blogs here: http://www.leighsbdesigns.blogspot.ca/ and http://www.dominoartblog.blogspot.ca/

Jacqui Woodward whose art can be found on her blog here: http://jacquis-creations.blogspot.co.uk/

These four talented and creative women are joining the fabulous returning team comprised of:

Monique van DijkHarp SilverNicky BookoutJaki YoungSuch an amazing group!Stay tuned because beginning in February, we are changing our challenge format from blog based with the Progressive Challenge to Facebook based with themed challenges. More about that later but let me just say, we are excited!!

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Hi everyone. I had a piece of this crazy background left over from a previous project and I wanted something artsy-related to be the focal. When I saw this Rick St. Dennis image called Euro Girl Denise the Artiste, I knew she would be the perfect choice. I decided to throw every bright colour at her and she how she turned out.

I coloured Denise with a mix of Polychromos and Prismacolor pencils. Her paint splotches were done with gel pens in Neon colours. Once finished, she was fussy cut leaving a narrow white border and then matted in black. Foam tape was added to the back of the image to adhere her to the background scrap and add a little dimension.

The background is 4.25 x 6 inches of mixed media paper which has been inked, stamped, and stencilled. The raised white harlequin pattern was done with embossing paste. The letters for ART and Make are stickers. The word art was shaded around with a Stabilo pencil and activated with a water brush. The same was done to the left side of the harlequin diamonds. Three little splotches were hand drawn and cut from sprayed scraps and layered to bring the paint splotches from the image to the background.

To complete the design, two lengths of washi tape were adhered to the background and threaded buttons were added. Doodling was used for a border and to outline various elements. White highlights were added to the letters in Art. Black Big Brush pen was used to ink around the edges and a black mat as well as a die cut scalloped edge were used to frame the piece.

Friday, January 15, 2016

Hi everyone, time for our team B to show their inspirational projects for the January progressive challenge. The link up can be found here, as you probably allready know this first part of the challenge is anything goes, and everyone entering will receive the image to use for next month challenge for free, so that means everyone is a winner just by entering.
So what are you all waiting for don't be shy, we love to see your work using Rick's images.

At the end of this post is a little surprise for you so keep reading :-).

There is some fun challenges going on at the Rick St.dennis Fans and Friends group, there are 2 sets of Marco Raffine pencils to be won, go check it out here, you will find info in the pinned post and the challenge albums.

We are still looking foor some new EDT members all detail of the dt call are here, the DT CALL closes January 18th, so only few days left to apply.

Here is the little surprise for you, a free downloadable colouring page (click on the image and save as)

This page is based on the art journal page I did, we thought it would be fun for the ones who are colouring and don't want to go messy with paints.

So if you want to have a go at art journalling, but don't know where to start or don;t have the supplies needed, this might be fun. You can print on any paper you like because I know markers and watercolour pencils don't go well with most colouring book pages, all you need to do is colour and maybe add some doodeling of your own. We like to hear if you would like more of these kind of pages, if you do some can me made as colouring pages and be sold in Zibbet or Etsy, so ideas, thoughts and coments are very welcome , enjoy.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Hi everyone. It's Bonniehere today with a mixed media piece. As soon as I saw this fabulous image in Rick's Zibbetshop, I knew just how I wanted to colour her, especially her big hair. She is over-the-top in-your-face and exudes such confidence. Love her! Her name is Moonbeamand that helped me decide how to do the background.

I coloured Moonbeam with my usual mix of Polychromos and Prismacolor pencils. She was then fussy cut with a narrow white border, matted in black cardstock, and trimmed out again. She was then popped up on foam tape and asked to amuse herself while waiting for the background.

The 6 x 8 inch rectangle of mixed media paper was spritzed with Drop Dead Gorgeous Green and Freaky Frankenlime Lindy's Starburst sprays through Joggles Cyclone stencil. I love the retro swirl effect...psychadelic. Haha! Once dry, more spirals were stamped with Viridian Archival ink. Scraps of tissue wrap printed with text were torn and adhered with gel medium. Two different washi tapes were adhered to white cardstock, trimmed and added to three spots. Black Dylusions paint was pounced through TCW's Mini Texturized stencil to add pops of contrast and more pattern/texture.

The computer generated sentiment was printed on white cardstock, trimmed out, and matted with black. Foam tape added dimension. Three green flower(power) brads were added to the page: two through the yellow washi tape and one through a stitched felt flower button. Black pearls were adhered to the centers to draw attention to them and emphasize the visual triangle. The page was edged with Black Big Brush pen and matted with black cardstock to frame it.

Thanks for popping by today. Moonbeam and I hope you enjoyed your trip back to the seventies...LOL. Such a fun image!

Monday, January 4, 2016

Hey everyone! We have some exciting news to share. We are putting out a call for a few
enthusiastic creative people who love images by Rick St. Dennis and
would like to join his Elite Design Team. This team promotes and
creates with Rick's images on two blogs, as well as on social media
forums. Sparkle and Glitteris our blog for Rick's
cute/fun/glamourous images and Airless Chambers caters to for who
love the darker ones. You will be able to create for one or the other
or both depending on your interest.

maintain an active blog and
participate on Facebook and other social media

love meeting new people, sharing
their passion and skills for creating

want to be part of a dynamic and
amazing team

You will be required to post two
projects on the blog(s) as well as completing a challenge project
each month. The term will last for 6 months at which time you may
re-apply if you wish to stay on the team.

To apply, please send an email to
Bonnie Irvine ( bsirvine@sympatico.ca)
with RSD DT Call in the subject line. Please include the following
information as well as two samples of your Rick St. Dennis creations.

Friday, January 1, 2016

Good morning everyone. Here's hoping those heads aren't feeling too fragile this morning after last night's festivities. Well, I'm sure some of you will have not succumbed and went to bed before "The Bells" as we say in the UK.
We on the EDT hope that those of you that do celebrate Christmas had a fantastic time and that you and your families spent precious time together and that Santa was good to you. Did anyone get any of Rick's Colouring books in their stockings? Or maybe some other crafty goodness? Please let us know. If you still have a few pennies to spend on yourself - why not treat yourself with a book or 3. Details are above on their own tab.
For those that don't celebrate, we hope you and your families were able to enjoy some together time as well over the weekend. Family time memories are to be treasured.

This month also says goodbye to Deborah. Please visit the post before this and leave her some love. We wish her all the best in her future.

Well a new month always heralds the start of a new Progressive Challenge and this is no exception.
Before the EDT projects we have a winner from the last Progressive challenge. Mr Random gets a look in here as we can never decide who to choose and he chose .........

We're a bit light on the EDT inspiration today but I'm sure you guys will make up for that and get those "Anything Goes using an RSD image" projects linked up so that we can come and be inspired by YOU. Bonnie and Monique have produced these fabulous projects